Monthly Archives: March 2007
Ready for the manure chronicles?
The caller identified himself as a reporter with the Canton Repository. He was doing a story on two dairy farms that are taking part in a pilot program for onfarm manure treatment, kind of like a municipal sewage treatment plant.
Author longs for life’s answers
John Steinbeck, the great American author of The Grapes of Wrath and several other books of great worth, decided late in his life he wanted to write a different sort of book.
Criminal activity but no criminals
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.
Eating right
Perhaps more of us than ever before are aware of the importance of what we eat, while at the same time, more temptations that aren't so good for us surround us and sway us to indulge in the wrong foods.
A clean sweep of mother-son relations
Can this relationship be saved? When it comes to cleaning, my 9-year-old son thinks a horizontal surface is a space onto which he can drop trading cards, old homework, various action figures, and tiny plastic parts barely visible to the naked eye belonging to erector sets he does not even remember owning.
The promise of spring is kept
If there is a whopping blizzard on the Thursday this article appears, it is all my fault, because this Thursday (March 22) I unplugged the heat tape in the barn.
Summer internship available
SALEM, Ohio - Farm and Dairy is accepting resumes for its paid summer editorial internship. The intern will work with the news department and work in the Salem, Ohio, office.
Submit farm art, win cash at exhibit
PENINSULA, Ohio - Artists in visual media are invited to submit entries for the gallery show Farm Art - From Plate to Palette.
Stewart’s wilt may hit Ohio in 2007
COLUMBUS - Cornfields throughout southern Ohio might be at risk this growing season for Stewart's bacterial wilt and leaf blight - a corn disease caused by a bacterium carried and spread by adult flea beetles.
Show winners from Ohio Beef Expo
COLUMBUS - More than 25,000 cattle industry enthusiasts attended the Ohio Beef Expo held March 15-18 at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus, Ohio.